The Palgrave international handbook on adult and lifelong education and learning. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: International handbook on adult and lifelong education and learning
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marcella Milana, Sue Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller, Peter Jarvis.
• Editors: Milana, Marcella; Webb, Sue; Holford, John; (Sociologist), Waller, Richard; Jarvis, Peter, 1937-
• Contents: Introduction: Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning; Marcella Milana, Susan Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller & Peter Jarvis.- PART I: THINKING AND RETHINKING THE FIELD.- Introduction: Thinking and Rethinking the Field; Marcella Milana, Susan Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller & Peter Jarvis.- THEORETICAL LANDSCAPES.- Contemporary Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning: An Epistemological Analysis; Richard G. Bagnall & Steven Hodge.- Exercising Clarity with Transformative Learning Theory; Chad Hoggan.- Critical Adult Education Theory: Traditions and Influence; Stephen Brookfield.- From Radical Adult Education to Social Movement Learning; John D. Holst.- Adult Learning and Communicative Rationality; Palle Rasmussen.- GENERATIVE PATHWAYS.- Adult Education and the 'Learning' Turn; Terri Seddon.- Limit Situations: Adult Education and Critical Awareness Raising; Danny Wildemeersch.- Revisiting Paulo Freire: Adult Education for Emancipation; Emilio Lucio-Villegas.- Learning and Experience: A Psycho-societal Approach; Henning Salling Olsen.- Complexity, Adult Biographies and Co-operative Transformation; Laura Formenti.- CONCEPTUAL SITES.- Economics and the Political Economy of Adult Education; Richard Desjardins.- The Critical Turn in Human Resources Development; Tonette S. Rocco, Sunny L. Munn & Joshua C. Collins.- Learning and Identity Development at Work; Alan Brown & Jenny Bimrose.- Lifelong Learning as an Emancipation Process: A Capability Approach; Pepka Boyadjieva & Petya Ilieva-Trichkova.- Knowledge Production as Organizational Learning in Danish Universities; Bente Elkjær.- PART II: SCALE AND MOVEMENT.- Introduction: Scale and Movement; Marcella Milana, Susan Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller & Peter Jarvis.- GLOBAL.- Assembling Literacy as Global: The Danger of a Single Story; Camilla Addey.- Conceptualizing Participation in Adult Learning and Education: Equity Issues; Kjell Rubenson.- Participation in Adult Literacy Programmes and Social Injustices; Lyn Tett.- Lifelong Learning Policy Discourses of International Organizations since 2000: A Kaleidoscope or Merely Fragments?; Moosung Lee & Shazia K. Jan.- Transformative Sustainability Education: From Sustainababble to a Civilization Leap; Elizabeth A. Lange.- Research Patterns in Comparative and Global Policy Studies on Adult Education; Marcella Milana.- REGIONAL.- Latin America: Adult and Popular Education in Dialogue; Danilo R. Streck & Cheron Zanini Moretti.- Europe: Comparing Lifelong Learning Systems; Éric Verdier.- The Mediterranean: Adult Education Landmarks; Peter Mayo.- The Southern African Development Community: Challenges and Prospects in Lifelong Learning; Idowu Biao & Tonic Maruatona.- NATIONAL.- Argentina: The Debate between Lifelong and Popular Education in Adult Education; Lidia Mercedes Rodriguez.- Ghana: The Life and Death of Adult Education and Implications for Current Policy; Michael Tagoe.- Palestine: Philosophical and Methodological Dilemmas for Adult Education; Rabab Tamish.- China: Adult Education and Learning Initiatives from Mao to Now; Roger Boshier.- Singapore: Trends and Directions in Lifelong Learning; Prem Kumar.- Timor-Leste: Adult Literacy, Popular Education and Post-Conflict Peace-Building; Robert Boughton.- TRANSIENCE.- Transnational Migration, Everyday Pedagogies and Cultural De-stabilization; Linda Morrice.- Researching Transnational Migration and Lifelong Learning; Shibao Guo.- Reconfiguring the Learning Space: Skilled Immigrants in Canada; Hongxia Shan.- Non-Permanent Workers and their Learning in a Developmental State; Sahara Sadik.- The Global Spread of the Nordic Folk High School Idea; Henrik Nordvall.- PART III: CONTEXTS, PEOPLE AND PRACTICES.- Introduction: Context, People and Practices; Marcella Milana, Susan Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller & Peter Jarvis.- ORGANISATIONS.- Adult Education Learned Societies: Professionalism and Publications; Susan Webb.- Adult Education Research: Publication Strategies and Collegial Recognition; Andreas Fejes & Erik Nylander.- Popular Universities: Their Hidden Functions and Contributions; Nelly P. Stromquist & Guillermo Lozano.- The Ideals and Practices of Citizenship in Nordic Study Circles; Annika Turunen.- South African University Engagement: Lifelong Learning and 'Socially Robust' Knowledge; Julia Preece.- LEARNERS.- Learning in Later Life: A Critical Perspective ; Brian Findsen.- Lifelong Learning for Older Adults: Culture and Confucianism; Siu Ling Maureen Tam.- Disabilities and Adult and Lifelong Education; Jovita M. Ross-Gordon.- Queering Transformative Learning: The Unfolding of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Ally Lives (LGBTQIA); Matthew E. Eichler & Racidon P. Bernarte.- TECHNOLOGIES, OBJECTS & ARTEFACTS.- Technologies for Adult and Lifelong Education; Seng Chee Tan.- The Mainstreaming of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs); Sarah Speight.- Lifelong Learning for Africa's Older Adults: The Role of Open Educational Resources and Indigenous Learning; Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko & Keitseope Nthomang.- Popular Culture, Adult Learning and Identity Development; Robin Redmon Wright.- Popular Fictions as Critical Adult Education; Christine Jarvis.- Creativity, the Arts, and Transformative Learning; Patricia Gouthro.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 374; Adult education
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137557834
• Related ISBNs: 9781137557827
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